January 2018
Beginner to intermediate
402 pages
10h 6m
English
book
Practical Mobile Forensics - Third Edition
by Rohit Tamma, Oleg Skulkin, Heather Mahalik, Satish Bommisetty
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Parsing Third-Party Application Files
Third-party applications have taken the smartphone community by storm. Most smartphone owners have more than one app on their device that they rely on to chat, game, get directions, or share pictures. According to https://www.statista.com/statistics/276623/number-of-apps-available-in-leading-app-stores/, there are almost 4 million apps existing worldwide for the various smartphones. Apple's App Store offers approximately 2.2 million apps, Google Play offers 2.8 million, Amazon offers 600,000, and Windows offers 670,000. This number is expected to grow exponentially through 2018.
The goal of this chapter is to introduce you to the various applications seen on Android, iOS devices, and Windows Phones. Each ...